Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

“May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.”

“Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and well meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.”

“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection”

“The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.”

“Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.”

“One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.”

“Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.”

“Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.”

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”

“Let me light my lamp, says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness”

“God respects me when I work, but He loves me when I sing.”

“I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”

“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”

“Age considers; youth ventures.”

“Gods most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.”

“These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.”

“Some things you must always be unable to bear.”

“The burden of self is lightened when I laugh at myself.”

“Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern; live your own life and follow your own star.”

“God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeksslaves and claims obedience.”